Reed College - Griffin Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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only woman in the clas to do her major work under Dr. Griffin. Besides assisting in the mathematics department, Miss Piggott has been making a study of mathematiCS courses in the hrst year of high scool with emfasis upon the substitu- tion of general instruction in the place of algebra. She is planning to teach her major subject. Miss Piggott is an enthusiastic basketball and tennis player and acted as captain of the upperclas basketball team in 1913. She also servd on the Athletic Coun- cil in 1913-1914, being besides an assistant in the Department of Fysical Education during that i ber of the Deutsche Verein, in which she holds 0st as editor. She is also a member of the Drama Club. REED COLLEGE ANNUAL + 1915 Katharine Piggott enterd the first clas with the contingent William Forrest Jenne prepard for college at Port- from Washington High Scool. She became interested in land Academy. During his course at Reed he has playd foot- mathematics during her first year and has done her principal ball and baseball for four years and basketball for one. He work in that department, having the distinction of being the made all-star teams in football and baseball, was captain of his clas baseball team, and twice cap- tain of the day-dodger baseball team. In student affairs Mr. Jenne has been a member of the Ath- letic Council for the current year, servd on the River Day and Junior Prom committees in 1914, and is chairman of the gradua- tion committee. Mr. Jenneys major subject is sociology and his bachelors thesis is on inventions, their rela- tion to culture, and their sig- nificance for society. He is also taking up the question of the year hereditary nature of inventiv ability. Altho Mr. Jennes inter- . . 1. . . o- . . r She has done consmlerable Ssts 1e. priiimpally 31911:, mecamcal lines, he takes. the xxord work 111 the German department and has been a faithful mem- inventions to mean ideas as W61 as mecamcal apphances. Mr. Jenne intends to enter upon a business career of some kind after leaving college.

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REED COLLEGE ANNUAL + 1915 I411 quired, Mr. French is constantly in demand. Besides playing Miss Creech has been interested in varius kinds of activities the piano and the flute, he has been a member of the corus since 011 the campus. She was secretary of the Drama Club for two 1912, and he also sung with the menls glee club. years and did much to start that organization. She took part Mr. French was tresurer of the clas during 1913-1914. in the sofomore and junior May-dances and was a member of D6; the corus during 1912-1913 . She is also an energetic worker for the Consumerls Leag. On leaving college Miss Creech expects to do social settlement work. Margaret Doris Creech has been prominent among the women of the senior clas in bringing the college into closer tuch with the community. Her major subject being sociology, Miss Creech has done consider- able original work on municipal problems. Her ritings on this topic include a Survey of the Rec- reational Possibilities of Port- land and a thesis on the subject of public helth. She also as- sisted in collecting data for the college report on vaudeville and motion picture theaters and for an exhibit on the liquor problem at the Conference on the Conservation of Human Life. In connection with her work as . . . gardian Of the Camp-fire Girls at the Jewish Neighborhood often been requisitiond for serVis on committees for varius Eoufe, 5116 made a comprehensiv study of the Jews in South social affairs. She is a member of the Amanda Reed Assoc1a- ort an . tion. w Ruth Kathryn Shoudy has spent only this year at Reed, Washington State College hav- ing claimd the remainder of her college life. Her major subject is English, in which she has done unusually intensiv worke branching out somewhat into history and filosofy. For her seminar thesis she is making a study of George Meredithls attitude toward nature. Altho she has been here such a short time, her abilities hav .-.v.-1-.-.-v.-m ,-,- . . . , . . . . . .y.-. . . .

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REED COLLEGE APHWUAL s 1915 MN Helen Louise Walton has done her most intensiv work in the Departments of French and English. Her major subject is English and her seminar thesis is a study of the modern English short story. Miscellaneus courses which she has elected haV been chiefly in the natural and social sciences. In extra-Curricular activities Miss Walton has held sev- Thc claimd her eral responsible positions. Drama Club has greatest interest. Here she has done efficient executiv work as president, as business manager of the presentation of The Pig- eon, and as a member of im- portant committees. She was secretary of her Clas in its junior year and a member of the Prom committee. For the past year she has been president of the dormitory women. She has also done valuable work in the Cone sumer's Leag. . Miss 1Va1ton intends to teach for a time and later enter training for a Yung VVomen s Chris- tian Association secretaryship. ngLvn, a ..'. .z....:..w Claude Milton Newlin prepard for college at the high scool at Newberg, Oregon, and took his bachelors degree at Pacific College, at Newberg, in 1911. After this for a year he was instructor in English literature, German and Latin in the academic department of Coeur dhAlene College at Coeur diAlene, Idaho, and then came to Reed, where he spent one year com- pleting his work for the degree in 1914. At Reed Mr. Newlin was an assistant in the English depart- ment, in which he did his major work. His bacheloris thesis at Reed was The Drama of the Celtic Renaissance. His interests ar wide, but comparativ litera- ture and filosofy may be said to dominate. He intends to do graduate work in the former. His view point is intellectual; widely red and a leader in discussion. his intense interest in change and in new move- ments mark him as a tru radical. Since leaving Reed Mr. Newlin has been instructor in English literature, French and German at the Aberdeen High Scool, in Aberdeen, Washington. ....;.:.sg...:xx;-.- - . -'-'.'1--'.' '--. ..........